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Events on Monday 20 November 2000 1
2000Alberto Fujimori is removed as president of PeruThe leader flees to Japan amid a corruption scandalIn November 2000 President Alberto Fujimori of Peru, undermined by videotapes showing his intelligence chief Vladimiro Montesinos bribing politicians, travelled to Japan and sent his resignation by fax. Congress refused it and instead voted him out, declaring the office vacant. Fujimori stayed abroad until his 2007 extradition and later conviction for abuses and corruption.